To create a good video and audio essay our group needs to rethink ‘what an essay is’. So what is an essay? Its are internalised artifacts which are brought together to form a coherent message or observation. We cant just want summaries the topic we have chosen. we need to experiment and develope a model, remix it, and create something new. We have challenge ourselves with teh information we find. We have to go further with teh research so then we can pull back interesting and important info. In the lecture and Workshop weve been told to dig a bit further in experimentation of the form. So for our video we im goign to try and make it seem as though there is a three act structure; beginning middle and end.

In Nick Moores video he talked about how an essay is an individual expressionistic form. Its not a documentary, its an opinion which comments and connects research. We look to films to tell us a story. Essay films are not a buntch of ideas, but they are about ideas which are looked at from the 4th wall. An essay film knows its a film which allows it to be a playgroud for ideas.

This is one of my favorite essay films: